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Tram-trains solution for South-Sub line

Edinburgh Evening News

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October 30, 2025

Despite Edinburgh having the best bus company in the UK, travelling between different parts of Edinburgh by public transport can be tricky, often involving complicated routes with multiple buses and having to go into the city centre only to then come back out to reach your destination.

- Ian Murray

Tram-trains solution for South-Sub line

AI image of how tram-trains could look on the South-Sub line

But a new campaign, as carried in the News, Tram Trains for Edinburgh, is aiming to change that. And it has my full support. The campaign builds on a set of proposals published earlier this year by civil engineering masters students at Herriot-Watt University.

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